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Mon, Aug 24, 2026 10:00 pm

Importing Vcard contacts extracted from a PST file into Proton Mail using an Intermediate CSV file

Proton Mail provides end-to-end encrypted email. If you are transitioning to Proton Mail from another email application and need the contacts you had stored in the other application, Proton Mail provides the capability to import contacts stored in a Virtual Contact File (VCF) or a comma-separated values (CSV) file. VCF, aka vCard, files usually have a .vcf filename extension while .csv is the filename extension for CSV files. To import such files, in the Proton Mail application, click on the Contacts icon on the upper, right side of the Proton Mail window, then click on Import Contacts, then select "Import from .csv or Vcard", then click on the "Choose a file or drag it here" button.

Import Contacts

If you want to extract contacts from a Microsoft Outlook Personal Storage Table .pst file, you can use the readpst utility to extract the contacts from the .pst file. A command such as readpst -cv -tc -o contacts_out your-outlook.pst can be used where contacts out is the output directory where you wish the utility to place the contacts (the output directory must exist prior to running the command) and your-outlook.pst is the location and name for the existing .pst file. E.g.:

alice@Wonderload:~/Documents$ readpst -cv -tc -o ~/Documents/contacts ~/Downloads/alice\@example.com.pst 
Opening PST file and indexes...
Processing Folder "Deleted Items"
Processing Folder "Inbox"
Processing Folder "Outbox"
Processing Folder "Sent Items"
Processing Folder "Suggested Contacts"
Processing Folder "Junk E-mail"
Processing Folder "Conversation Action Settings"
Processing Folder "Quick Step Settings"
Processing Folder "Drafts"
Processing Folder "Calendar"
Processing Folder "Contacts"
Processing Folder "Journal"
Processing Folder "Notes"
Processing Folder "Tasks"
	"Suggested Contacts" - 22 items done, 0 items skipped.
Processing Folder "RSS Feeds"
Processing Folder "~ Holly"
Processing Folder "HVIA Members"
	"alice@example.com" - 16 items done, 0 items skipped.
Processing Folder "Tutorials"
Processing Folder "HVIA Renters"
	"Tasks" - 0 items done, 5 items skipped.
	"HVIA Renters" - 1 items done, 0 items skipped.
	"HVIA Members" - 102 items done, 1 items skipped.
	"Tutorials" - 31 items done, 0 items skipped.
	"Contacts" - 127 items done, 4 items skipped.
	"Calendar" - 0 items done, 229 items skipped.
	"Inbox" - 0 items done, 297 items skipped.
	"Sent Items" - 0 items done, 341 items skipped.
	"~ Holly" - 0 items done, 399 items skipped.
alice@Wonderload:~/Documents$

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